Improved medicine for rheumatism



tanned Y swa patent GEORGE OONROY, OE MENDOCINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,

' ROBERT A. SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

ASSIGNO T Letters Patent No. 95,771, dated October 12, 1869.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnonen OONROY, of Mendocino county, State of California, have invented an Improved Medicine for the Cure of Rheumatism; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same.

The above-named medicine is composed of the following ingredients, to wit, fruit of the buckeye, and the root of the Oregon wild grape.

Method of Propel/ring.

Take a quantity of the root of the Oregon Wild grape; boil it in a kettle or other vessel, until the juice or sap is all extracted; then put in the hulled'fruit of the ripe buckeye, and boil the buckeyes in the decoction until they are thoroughly cooked, and become soft, like a well-done potato; then pour the liquid (after straining) into a vessel containing clean hogs lard. -The whole is then subjected to evaporation,

until the liquid disappears, leaving an ointment, which I call The Great California Cure for Rheumatism.

The following are the proportions in which the ingredients are combined:

One pound of grape-root to one gallon of water and four pounds of buckeyes. The decoction resulting from the above proportions to be added to three pounds of lard.

Manner of Application.

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